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[CODE THREE] Food and other essential goods like drugs and surgical masks will be available at best in limited supplies, Osterholm cautioned in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, which devoted a number of articles to the threat of pandemic influenza. He saved his most...

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[Emerald City Commentary] Avian Influenza A (H5N1): Chronicle: Flu pandemic looms, experts warn world: Many millions will die if Southeast Asian bird virus... to pandemic': Expert warns estimate of 7.5m global deaths is optimistic. And USA Today: Flu pandemic... . . . says that current estimates that such a pandemic could cause 7.5m deaths may understate

[Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: Time's up: The US has tolerated an influenza death toll of 30,000 to 50,000 persons in a (normal) year because of a lack of a national commitment to universal annual influenza vaccination. This is ten World-Trade-Centers-in-slow-motion worth of lives our government, both the executive and the congress, allows to happen because it doesn't have the will or the guts to oppose an entrenched health care industry (organized medicine, hospitals and drug companies).

[Edstrong.blog-city.com] Bird Flu Pandemic: More Than 7.5m Global Deaths? (www.edstrong ...: His warnings come as experts writing in today's edition of Nature voice concerns about the world's inability to manufacture sufficient vaccines for a pandemic and warn of the impact that the virus - H5N1 - could have on the global economy.

[Flu.org.cn] FIC, Flu News Office,Nature urges world to take pandemic threat ...: "The stage is set for the emergence of a fresh human influenza pandemic. ... This fictional blog traces the trajectory of a hypothetical pandemic from its ...

[Peakoil.com] Peak Oil News and Message Boards >> Forums >> Open Discussion ...: Thus, we have two major fronts (besides the "hot" virus as Marburg that even though is 99.6% deadly, tends to kills its hosts rather quickly and thus dies out rather quickly)...the H5N1, which appears to, if Vietnamese reports are correct, to have developed into a human to human variant, and eerily parallels the 1918 influenza epidemic (slight in spring, full blown pandemic in fall), and what may be the intentional release of WSN/33 (it hasn't been around for 50 years, and was only available in a lab form) into swine....That means someone put it there...That's why many scientists thought it had to be a mistake...

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